Here is the tour of Trick Concepts Sheet Metal shop.

52" Power Shear

This Wysong shear is used to make straight cuts on sheet metal up to 16 gauge.  When purchased, this was a stomp shear, meaning that after you put the metal into the machine, you had to stomp down on a lever with your foot to make the cut.  This made it very had to cut long pieces of metal, because you could not reach the stomp peddle.  To solve this problem, we rebuilt it with a 4" air ram and a foot peddle to do the work for us.  This allows us to pull the put the peddle to anywhere that it is easiest to hold the metal, and makes for quite a bit less of a work out.

52" Metal Bending Finger Break

The metal break is for making square bends in sheet metal.  The metal is placed between the base and metal fingers and clamped.  The the bottom lever is pulled up until the metal has been bent to the desired angle.  Fingers can be removed from the top half to allow clearance to make shapes such as boxes.

Ship Roller

This machine is actually a 3 in one machine, that has a shear, break and roller in in, but we just use it fore the roller, because we already have another break and shear.  The bead roller has 3 roller that a piece of sheet metal is placed between and rolled.  the part can be roller to either a cylindrical or conical shape, depending on the tension setting on the different rollers.

Bead Roller

Starting with a simple vice mounted hand operated bead roller, we made this dual direction powered bead roller that can be used to to add structure design to sheet metal.

Throat less Shear

On to of our meal forming table can be seen a throat less shear.  This shear can precisely cut complex shapes in sheet metal.  This rolling table has a 3" wood top that dampens the blow sustained when hammer forming sheet metal.

Metal forming tools

Shown in these photos are some tools used to form sheet metal.  The first photos has a number of post dollies.  These are used to hammer forming sheet metal over.

Layout table

This drafting table has a drafting machine on it for precise layout.  We do most of out work in CAD, so this table is not used  a lot for drafting, but it works great for laying out sheet metal.